Projects
Relieve PAIN by manipulating BRAIN circuits (PAINBRAIN) KU Leuven
Pain is an essential feature of our bodies that alerts us to danger or injury. Several therapies exist already, but no universal pain reliever has been identified so far. Our goal is to modulate precise brain circuits to relieve pain instantaneously without the need for drugs. We will study pain in head-fixed mice receiving a calibrated nociceptive cold or hot stimulus on the forepaw. We will record simultaneously brain-wide activity using ...
Motion Tracking in CAOS Systems with a proof-of-concept on percutaneous scaphoid fixations KU Leuven
When a person breaks a scaphoid bone in its wrist, it is often necessary to stabilise the fracture fragments with a screw through a small incision. The screw needs to be placed completely within the bone or else it could lead to cartilage damage in the wrist. Due to the complicated anatomy of the wrist and the small incision, the surgeon cannot get a clear view of where the screw should go in the bone and errors are common. To address this ...
Motion Tracking in CAOS Systems with a proof-of-concept on percutaneous scaphoid fixations Ghent University
When a person breaks a scaphoid bone in their wrist, it is often necessary to stabilise the fracture fragments with a screw through a small incision. The screw needs to be placed completely within the bone or else it could lead to cartilage damage in the wrist. Due to the complicated anatomy of the wrist and the small incision, the surgeon cannot get a clear view of where the screw should go in the bone and errors are common. To address this ...
HAPPY: haptic feedback the next step in smart interfacing. KU Leuven
In this project the technical enablers to make haptic feedback part of modern smart systems will be created. Haptic feedback is touch sensory feedback: smart systems can make a user feel something. Starting from preliminary research on thin film ultrasound transducers and thin film circuits combined with silicon chips, a real-time haptic feedback system will be created. An application example of this is a touch screen that lets its user feel ...
Ultra-high frame rate echocardiography for improving left ventricular diastolic function assessment KU Leuven
Diastolic function (DF) of the left ventricle (LV) is impaired in most pathologies of the heart and can even become the dominant problem in some disease. Invasive heart catheterization can describe diastolic properties of the LV very well, but is not feasible for repeated use in the follow-up of patients. Therefore, current guidelines propose a multi-parametric echocardiographic assessment of DF, which, however, is complex and prone to ...
Extreme low-frequency-electromagnetic stimulation (ELF-EMS) as an innovative tool to target endothelial cells in ischemic stroke Hasselt University
Mapping behaviorally salient neural activity in the superior colliculus and the subcortical networks guiding innate behaviors. KU Leuven
How visual information is processed by the brain to orient our attention and guide behavior is central to our understanding of sensory – motor transformations. Transgenic mouse models together with molecular and genetic tools and high-throughput recording techniques have allowed us to start to understand how local brain circuits and their direct projections are organized to integrate sensory information and guide behavior. However, these ...
Seeing Sound and Vibrations. Ghent University
Certain light-emitting materials (or phosphors) are able to internally store energy for a long time.
Upon mechanical stimulation, such as pressure or scratching, some can emit this energy in the
form of visible light. These mechanoluminescent (ML) phosphors only start to show their full
application potential.
The first goal is to use these phosphors for the visualization of ultrasonic fields. Ultrasound,
defined ...